Amber Rose Tamblyn is an American actress and author. She first came to national attention in her role on the soap opera General Hospital as Emily Quartermaine at 11.
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Amber Tamblyn’s show biz connections go way back. Her paternal grandfather, Eddie Tamblyn, was a vaudeville headliner and a film star of the 1930s; her father, Russ Tamblyn, (1935–) is a legendary song-and-dance man known for his roles in such movie musicals as Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) and West Side Story (1961).
Before becoming a teen counselor, mother Bonnie pursued a career as an artist and sang lead in a rock band called Blue Heaven and the Rainbow Girl. As Tamblyn commented to Soap Opera Weekly, “All you have to do is smush them together and you have me.”
When Amber Rose Tamblyn was born on May 14, 1983, in Santa Monica, California, she not only inherited her parents’ show business genes but also an extended family in the form of her parents’ celebrity friends. Tamblyn grew up around such Hollywood heavyweights as actor Dennis Hopper (1936–) and music great Neil Young (1945–), and listening to their stories, and those of her famous father, fueled an early interest in performing.